Fusün Erdoğan

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New York, May 9, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists
welcomes the release
from jail on Thursday of Fusün Erdoğan, former general manager of Özgür
Radyo, and Bayram Namaz, a columnist for the weekly Atılım, and urges Turkish authorities to remove restrictions on
their travel and lift their prison sentences on appeal.

On World Press Freedom Day, CPJ calls for the release of all jailed journalists

By Shazdeh Omari/CPJ News Editor

New York, April 29, 2014—Uzbek editor Muhammad Bekjanov has been in jail for 15 years, one of the longest imprisonments of journalists worldwide. Prominent Iranian journalist Siamak Ghaderi was imprisoned in 2010 and has been beaten and whipped in custody. Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Van Hai, serving a 12-year jail term, could barely walk or talk during a prison visit in July 2013, his family said.

In a letter
she passed from Gebze women's prison outside Istanbul, Fusün Erdoğan,
founder and director of the leftist broadcaster Özgür Radyo, details
circumstances of her arrest, imprisonment, and politicized criminal charges. Erdoğan
founded the broadcaster in 1995, and worked as its director until September 8,
2006--the day when plainclothes police agents detained her in the city of Izmir,
she writes in the letter. She has been locked up ever since.